Georges Saget

Georges Saget (12 October 1779-2 June 1847) was a colonel of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Georges Saget was born in Saint-Brieuc in Brittany, a northwestern region of France. Saget enlisted in the French army in 1796 at the age of seventeen and fought in the War in the Vendee near his home region, and remained in the region as the colonel of Breton militia. During the Breton Revolt of 1805 Saget fought as the commander of a National Guard company, and in 1814 he was promoted to Colonel during the Defense of France. He led a regiment of Young Guard grenadiers in the Battle of Bar-le-Duc in eastern France, and after the Bourbon Restoration of 1814 he retired from military command. He became a farmer in his hometown.